The Mystery of the Mona Lisa (TRIH ep 667)
1503 · Resource
In this episode of The Rest Is History Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the enduring fascination with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Beginning with Walter Pater’s 1869 prose, they trace the painting’s technical challenges, its early copies, and the development of the sfumato technique.
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Around 1503
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)